لوجه

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Ottoman Turkish

لوجه

Etymology

Borrowed from either French loge (theater box; lodge) or Italian loggia (loge; lodge). Doublet of لونجه (lonca, guild, corporation).

Noun

لوجه (loca)

  1. loge, box, a compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other similar building
  2. lodge, the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry and the building in which such a unit meets

Descendants

  • Turkish: loca
  • Armenian: լօճա (lōča)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “loca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2974
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1082
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “lodja”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 317
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 44
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “loca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1643